"Sanchez-Eppler's work is not an overview but focuses more specifically on the issues of child writing, temperance, child death, child labor, and colonialism, which give more depth to the nineteenth-century climate for children. Eppler balances child and adult voices, visual and printed culture in a way that reveals their overlapping interests and influence."
— Emily Honey, Kritikon Litterarum
"A graceful and nuanced reading of several nineteenth-century writers to reveal how the middle class used particular understandings of childhood to romanticize and, in fact, create a distinctive culture. . . . Teachers on the lookout for illustrations and examples to bring nineteenth-century culture to life for their students could do no bette5r than to mine these pages."
— Gail Murra, The Historian